Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And by the time they do replicate that, I have a countermeasure out.

That's the best way to win.

And this is the way a lot of companies, like this is one of the ways that like Skunkworks regressed is they kept everything on pen and paper behind all these skiffs.

It took two years to hire someone for the company.

So you kind of have to make a conscious choice between speed and extreme secrecy.

Now you can execute speed with extreme secrecy on some things, and we certainly do that.

I definitely think speed is the right outcome.

And then you're touching on something that's

I don't think it's scale manufacturing.

I think it's flexibility of that manufacturing.

So the thing we see in Ukraine is that the assets that are winning that war change every three to six months.

And so one, I do think it is possible to engineer at such a speed.

The engineering is still very, very, very important.

I'm looking at your list of tools.

I think so, but I think things are different on different timelines.

So like one of our things is I refuse to work on an aircraft that I don't see a world in which it could win a war.

I think they're all very, very, very important.

They're just like Viper and Glide are like the most important right now.

I think on some timeline, Atlas will be incredibly important.

And these things take time to engineer.

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